Glass Ceiling And Sticky Floor Effect

The paper has then proceeded to posit the existence of a strong sticky floor effect and a weaker glass ceiling effect in bangladesh with discriminatory rewards to observed characteristics being the dominant feature of the observed wage gap across the entire distribution.

Glass ceiling and sticky floor effect. The evidence from chinese labor market advances in economics and business 5 10 2017 531 538. Sticky floors can be described as the pattern that women are compared to men less likely to start to climb the job ladder. Duraisamy gender wage gap across the wage distribution in different segments of the indian labour market 1983 2012. And so when a speaker on gender in the workplace talked about women and leadership and explored the underlying reason for the disproportionate number of women in high leadership positions as a combination of both glass ceiling and a sticky floor it resonated.

Unconditional quintile regression earnings disparity gender discrimination glass ceiling effect sticky floor effect. The green line in figure 3 shows wage structure effects while controlling for establishment fixed effects. The term sticky floor is used to describe a discriminatory employment pattern that keeps a certain group of people at the bottom of the job scale. Policy prescriptions and potential avenues for further scope concerning the paper are also mentioned in the end.

Expression used as a metaphor to point to a discriminatory employment pattern that keeps workers mainly women in the lower ranks of the job scale with low mobility and invisible barriers to career advancement. Cite this paper yao tang rebecca scott. Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses. In the literature on gender discrimination the concept of sticky floors complements the concept of a glass ceiling.

The gender gap at each percentile reduces in relation to the red line but still exists indicating that both the glass ceiling and sticky floor phenomena exist even within an establishment. Sticky floor and glass ceiling. Sticky floor effect and a weaker glass ceiling effect in bangladesh with discriminatory rewards to observed characteristics being the dominant feature of the observed wage gap across the entire distribution. I love images that paint a compelling picture.